tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post2254812086613525038..comments2024-03-15T12:16:33.202+00:00Comments on Nothing Tra La La?: Construction maximus0tralalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-29422764833552924452007-10-25T22:05:00.000+01:002007-10-25T22:05:00.000+01:00I've started "Number Nine Dream" three times.Sadly...I've started "Number Nine Dream" three times.<BR/><BR/>Sadly, where you have a stalagmite, I have Olympus Mons.Rob Stradlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622504337859973159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-2056679618158525782007-10-25T10:37:00.000+01:002007-10-25T10:37:00.000+01:00It's not exactly the same islands in "Sloosha's Cr...It's not exactly the same islands in "Sloosha's Crossing" as in "The Pacific Journal" -- F is Hawaii, whereas A is the Chathams. They'er about as far apart from one another as Pacific islands get. <BR/><BR/>That said, it's quite clearly a thematic return. (And Adam may set out from Hawaii, now I come to think about it. It's been a while since I read the book.)<BR/><BR/>What did you make of the suggestion that some of the stories are fictional rather than historical in relation to one another? (The Luisa Rey story being a novel manuscript Cavendish reads, for example.) Come to that, Cavendish is old enough in the 2000s that he couldn't possibly be a reincarnation of the 1970s Luisa, unless souls travel in time to reincarnate. <BR/><BR/>(My own interpretation of this is that Cavendish is the only "real" character, and the rest exist in a fictional continuum where reincarnation happens. But I'm not terribly secure on the point.)Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08870980082684845846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-15053403101286329782007-10-24T20:06:00.000+01:002007-10-24T20:06:00.000+01:00> the six characters in the book are all reincarna...> the six characters in the book are all reincarnations of the same person (a trick done previously in Kim Stanley Robsinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt).<BR/><BR/>Not to mention Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10533041395640669133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-71480440193591087852007-10-24T19:41:00.000+01:002007-10-24T19:41:00.000+01:00Silly me, I thought it was a nonfiction book about...Silly me, I thought it was a nonfiction book about clouds.Le Mchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01508710616712419119noreply@blogger.com